Clay
A long term study of the China Clay region of Mid-Cornwall.
To be Published one day...
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Cup waves that rub more greedily
Now half-way up the chasm; you see
Doomed foliage hang like rags;
The whole clay-belly sags.
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Beneath those waters: chimney-pots
That used to smoke; brown rusty clots
Of wheels still oozing tar;
Lodge doors that rot ajar.
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Emerge like claws cut short on the dump,
Though once they bore the wagon’s thump:
Now only toads and snails
Creep round their loosened nails.
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Of massive pit-bed pillars - how
They strain to scab the pool’s face now,
Pressing like famished lips
Which dread the cold eclipse.
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Jack Clemo